Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
JESUS CHRIST
JESUS CHRIST, GRACE & MERCY
We humans were sent here to the planet earth , to consciousness , to activity, by divine acts of grace and mercy , as surely as were the stars, rivers, plants, insects, winds, rains.
Thus, Jesus Christ, whose birth we now celebrate as "Christmas" was always comparing, when teaching truths, human behavior to nature: animal behavior, insects, or plant life due to our natural kinship from the same divine eternal source, God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Jah. He promoted our understanding by the use of analogies and aphorisms.
He taught incessantly, involuntarily.
Like all else, Jesus of Nazareth was sent here, to earth for a season and for a reason, like us. When it is up that is it. "We" return to the Source.
Too easily and too often forms are misperceived as essences, and if that happens, confusion, illusions set in, dividing mankind internally and externally from all else as the one unique thing in the "universe."
Abdication of personality in favor of acquisition of divine universality is to relinquish your form for a whole.
This is true selflessness. One stops being one, but becomes complete.
One gains by subtracting. Death becomes victory by it! Anomaly?
Certainly! as we perceive life and death . "Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect". This Matthew 5:48 enjoins us to be, do.
The true and perfect gift is Jesus, is us , by default, by grace, mercy.